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cribo (plural cribos)

1. Any of various snakes in the genus Drymarchon.
   • 1871, Harper's Magazine, volume 43, page 844:

     It is a singular fact that this snake, so fatal to man, has no power against another West Indian snake, almost equally common, namely, the cribo.

• boric, orbic

cribo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cribar

Attested since circa 1300. From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cribum, dissimilated form of Latin cribrum attested in some late glosses, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to seive”). Cognate with Portuguese crivo and Spanish criba.

• IPA^(key):

cribo m (plural cribos)

1. (agriculture) winnow

   Synonym: xoeira

2. sieve

   Synonym: peneira

   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 264:

     furarõ aquel vaso todo porlo fondo [como] criuo

     They pierced that vase all by its bottom as a sieve

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “criuo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cribo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cribo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cribo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

cribo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cribar

cribo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cribar